False positive : fiction / by Harold Jaffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaffe, Harold.

Contributor:

Fiction Collective Two (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Current events--Fiction.

Current events.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

140 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Normal [Ill.] : FC2, [2002]

Summary:

Each of the Fifteen Fictions in False Positive originated as a nationally known newspaper story, which Harold Jaffe has "treated" to bring to its prosaic surface a maniacal subtext. The original stories cover the familiar American postmodern grotesquerie: high school mass murders, sexual molestations, internet ambushes, serial killers on the loose. Jaffe Enters Each published version, and through rearrangement, nuanced rewriting, and strategic interpellations, exposes the host text's latent madness. Thus rearmed, Jaffe's prosthetic creation is released into our culture to do its unsettling work. Jaffe's fictive "treatment" of these everyday nightmares is ambitious and startling. He embeds his found story in his own heightened versions, leaving the traces of the original text alongside his own, or insinuates the ghostly presence of journalese within his own deadpan lines. As The San Diego Union-Tribune has said of Jaffe's earlier fiction, False Positive is more "exquisite chaos from the master word processor of our generation."

Contents:

Yowl

Geeks Dream 15

Severed Hand 23

Carthage, Miss. 33

Bodybag 39

Glendale & Palmdale 47

Faux 53

2

Mad Cow 65

Zealous Hysterectomies 71

Kali

Salaam 81

Karla Faye 85

Pizza Parlor 93

Chesus & the Dead Amputee 99

Nameless Moroccan 12 Stories Up 111

Slurry 117

Post-Apoc

Dr. Death 129.

ISBN:

1573660981

OCLC:

47705983